Evolutionary diversification of the HAP2 membrane insertion motifs to drive gamete fusion across eukaryotes.

abstract：:FtsZ is a tubulin-like GTPase that is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacterial cell division. It polymerizes into a ring, called the Z ring, at the division site and acts as a scaffold to recruit other division proteins to this site as well as providing a contractile force for cytokinesis. To understand how FtsZ pe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strauss MP,Liew AT,Turnbull L,Whitchurch CB,Monahan LG,Harry EJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RecA protein forms nucleoprotein filaments on DNA, and individual monomers within the filaments hydrolyze ATP. Assembly and disassembly of filaments are both unidirectional, occurring on opposite filament ends, with disassembly requiring ATP hydrolysis. When filaments form on duplex DNA, RecA protein exhibits a fu...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cox JM,Tsodikov OV,Cox MM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements comprise a huge portion of most animal genomes. Unlike many pathogens, these elements leave a mark of their impact via their insertion into host genomes. With proper teasing, these sequences can relay information about the evolutionary history of transposons and their hosts. In a new publication,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McLaughlin RN Jr

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies have been pursued to increase the extent of exon 7 inclusion during splicing of SMN2 (survival of motor neuron 2) transcripts, for eventual therapeutic use in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that target an exon or its flanking splice ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hua Y,Vickers TA,Baker BF,Bennett CF,Krainer AR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial dysbiosis in the upper digestive tract is linked to an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Overabundance of Porphyromonas gingivalis is associated with shorter survival of ESCC patients. We investigated the molecular mechanisms driving aggressive progression of ESCC by P. gingivalis....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Qi YJ,Jiao YL,Chen P,Kong JY,Gu BL,Liu K,Feng DD,Zhu YF,Ruan HJ,Lan ZJ,Liu QW,Mi YJ,Guo XQ,Wang M,Liang GF,Lamont RJ,Wang H,Zhou FY,Feng XS,Gao SG

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In adults, the growth of blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis, is essential for organ growth and repair. In many disorders including cancer, angiogenesis becomes excessive. The cellular origin of new vascular endothelial cells (ECs) during blood vessel growth in angiogenic situations has remained unknown. He...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fang S,Wei J,Pentinmikko N,Leinonen H,Salven P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic heterogeneity can confer clonal groups of organisms with new functionality. A paradigmatic example is the bistable expression of virulence genes in Salmonella typhimurium, which leads to phenotypically virulent and phenotypically avirulent subpopulations. The two subpopulations have been shown to divide lab...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Arnoldini M,Vizcarra IA,Peña-Miller R,Stocker N,Diard M,Vogel V,Beardmore RE,Hardt WD,Ackermann M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Necroptosis is a regulated, nonapoptotic form of cell death initiated by receptor-interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) and mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL) proteins. It is considered to be a form of regulated necrosis, and, by lacking the "find me" and "eat me" signals that are a feature of apoptosis, necroptos...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zargarian S,Shlomovitz I,Erlich Z,Hourizadeh A,Ofir-Birin Y,Croker BA,Regev-Rudzki N,Edry-Botzer L,Gerlic M

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper (Cu) has emerged as an important modifier of body lipid metabolism. However, how Cu contributes to the physiology of fat cells remains largely unknown. We found that adipocytes require Cu to establish a balance between main metabolic fuels. Differentiating adipocytes increase their Cu uptake along with the ATP7...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yang H,Ralle M,Wolfgang MJ,Dhawan N,Burkhead JL,Rodriguez S,Kaplan JH,Wong GW,Haughey N,Lutsenko S

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A large repertoire of natural object manipulation tasks require precisely coupled symmetrical opposing forces by both hands on a single object. We asked how the lateralized brain handles this basic problem of spatial and temporal coordination. We show that the brain consistently appoints one of the hands as prime acto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johansson RS,Theorin A,Westling G,Andersson M,Ohki Y,Nyberg L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained precatalytic (enzyme-substrate complex) and postcatalytic (enzyme-product complex) crystal structures of an active full-length hammerhead RNA that cleaves in the crystal. Using the natural satellite tobacco ringspot virus hammerhead RNA sequence, the self-cleavage reaction was modulated by substitutin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chi YI,Martick M,Lares M,Kim R,Scott WG,Kim SH

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that the catch bond mechanism, where binding becomes stronger under tensile force, is a common property among non-covalent interactions between biological molecules that are exposed to mechanical force in vivo. Here, by using the multi-protein tip complex of the mannose-binding type 1 fimb...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Aprikian P,Interlandi G,Kidd BA,Le Trong I,Tchesnokova V,Yakovenko O,Whitfield MJ,Bullitt E,Stenkamp RE,Thomas WE,Sokurenko EV

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide immunogens provide an approach to focus antibody responses to specific neutralizing sites on the HIV envelope protein (Env) trimer or on other pathogens. However, the physical characteristics of peptide immunogens can limit their pharmacokinetic and immunological properties. Here, we have designed synthetic "s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Francica JR,Laga R,Lynn GM,Mužíková G,Androvič L,Aussedat B,Walkowicz WE,Padhan K,Ramirez-Valdez RA,Parks R,Schmidt SD,Flynn BJ,Tsybovsky Y,Stewart-Jones GBE,Saunders KO,Baharom F,Petrovas C,Haynes BF,Seder RA

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human body is a complex organism, the gross mechanical properties of which are enabled by an interconnected musculoskeletal network controlled by the nervous system. The nature of musculoskeletal interconnection facilitates stability, voluntary movement, and robustness to injury. However, a fundamental understandi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy AC,Muldoon SF,Baker D,Lastowka A,Bennett B,Yang M,Bassett DS

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeal RNA polymerase (RNAP) shares structural similarities with eukaryotic RNAP II but requires a reduced subset of general transcription factors for promoter-dependent initiation. To deepen our knowledge of cellular transcription, we have determined the structure of the 13-subunit DNA-directed RNAP from Sulfol...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Korkhin Y,Unligil UM,Littlefield O,Nelson PJ,Stuart DI,Sigler PB,Bell SD,Abrescia NG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scient...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gall T,Ioannidis JPA,Maniadis Z

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 20 years ago, alterations to the protein myocilin were confirmed to be linked to a heritable form of the prevalent eye disease, glaucoma, and 10 years ago, my lab set out to develop a deeper understanding of myocilin in its normal and diseased state. We have made strides in understanding how genetic mutations in ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lieberman RL

更新日期：2019-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene GAD2 encoding the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme (GAD65) is a positional candidate gene for obesity on Chromosome 10p11-12, a susceptibility locus for morbid obesity in four independent ethnic populations. GAD65 catalyzes the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which interacts with neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boutin P,Dina C,Vasseur F,Dubois S,Corset L,Séron K,Bekris L,Cabellon J,Neve B,Vasseur-Delannoy V,Chikri M,Charles MA,Clement K,Lernmark A,Froguel P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes are ubiquitous acidified organelles that degrade intracellular and extracellular material trafficked via multiple pathways. Lysosomes also sense cellular nutrient levels to regulate target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase, a signaling enzyme that drives growth and suppresses activity of the MiT/TFE family of transc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy JT,Liu H,Ma X,Shaver A,Egan BM,Oh C,Boyko A,Mazer T,Ang S,Khopkar R,Javaheri A,Kumar S,Jiang X,Ory D,Mani K,Matkovich SJ,Kornfeld K,Diwan A

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000193.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Field KA,Paquet PC,Artelle K,Proulx G,Brook RK,Darimont CT

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, most mRNAs are exported from the nucleus by the transcription export (TREX) complex, which is loaded onto mRNAs after their splicing and capping. We have studied in mammalian cells the nuclear export of mRNAs that code for secretory proteins, which are targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum membran...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Palazzo AF,Springer M,Shibata Y,Lee CS,Dias AP,Rapoport TA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex performs complex cognitive functions at the expense of tremendous energy consumption. Blood vessels in the brain are known to form stereotypic patterns that facilitate efficient oxygen and nutrient delivery. Yet little is known about how vessel development in the brain is normally regulated. Radial...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ma S,Kwon HJ,Johng H,Zang K,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unc-51-like autophagy activating kinase 1 (ULK1)-autophagy-related 13 (ATG13) is the most upstream autophagy initiation complex that is phosphorylated by mammalian target-of-rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) to induce autophagy in asynchronous conditions. However, their phospho-regul...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Li Z,Tian X,Ji X,Wang J,Chen H,Wang D,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have implicated a frontal-parietal network in the top-down control of attention. However, little is known about the timing and sequence of activations within this network. To investigate these timing questions, we used event-related electr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Grent-'t-Jong T,Woldorff MG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of terminal cell fate and onset of differentiation are instructed by cell type-specific master control genes. Loss of differentiation is frequently observed during cancer progression, but the underlying causes and mechanisms remain poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that master regulators of d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bossuyt W,De Geest N,Aerts S,Leenaerts I,Marynen P,Hassan BA

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Do neuronal oscillations play a causal role in brain function? In a study in this issue of PLOS Biology, Helfrich and colleagues address this long-standing question by attempting to drive brain oscillations using transcranial electrical current stimulation. Remarkably, they were able to manipulate visual perception by...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Thut G

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus proliferation involves gene replication inside infected cells and transmission to new target cells. Once positive-strand RNA virus has infected a cell, the viral genome serves as a template for copying ("stay-strategy") or is packaged into a progeny virion that will be released extracellularly ("leave-strategy")...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Iwanami S,Kitagawa K,Ohashi H,Asai Y,Shionoya K,Saso W,Nishioka K,Inaba H,Nakaoka S,Wakita T,Diekmann O,Iwami S,Watashi K

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system is ancient and highly conserved. It is the first line of defense and the only recognizable immune system in the vast majority of metazoans. Signaling events that convert pathogen detection into a defense response are central to innate immunity. Drosophila has emerged as an invaluable model org...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Foley E,O'Farrell PH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum uses glutamate decarboxylation to generate a transmembrane gradient of Na⁺. Here, we demonstrate that this ion-motive force is directly coupled to ATP synthesis, via an F₁F₀-ATP synthase with a novel Na⁺ recognition motif, shared by other human pathogens. Molecular model...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schulz S,Iglesias-Cans M,Krah A,Yildiz O,Leone V,Matthies D,Cook GM,Faraldo-Gómez JD,Meier T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study of postdoctoral outcomes at the University of California, San Francisco, and suggest that institutions have an obligation to determine where ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Silva EA,Des Jarlais C,Lindstaedt B,Rotman E,Watkins ES

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00